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Date:	Tue, 05 May 2015 18:52:58 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2 for-4.0] mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node

Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> writes:

> On 04/21/2015 09:31 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> writes:
>>
>>> On 25.2.2015 22:24, David Rientjes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> alloc_pages_preferred_node() variant, change the exact_node() variant to pass
>>>>> __GFP_THISNODE, and audit and adjust all callers accordingly.
>>>>>
....
...
>>> Right, we might be changing behavior not just for slab allocators, but
>>> also others using such
>>> combination of flags.
>>
>> Any update on this ? Did we reach a conclusion on how to go forward here
>> ?
>
> I believe David's later version was merged already. Or what exactly are 
> you asking about?

When I checked last time I didn't find it. Hence I asked here. Now I
see that it got committed as 5265047ac30191ea24b16503165000c225f54feb

Thanks
-aneesh

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